REU SITE: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Earth and Environmental Sciences (SURFEES)

今年夏天，查普曼大学施密德科技学院的REU网站项目将每年从两年制社区学院（特别关注低收入学生、女性和少数族裔学生）中挑选12名学生，让他们有机会参与从分子到全球范围内与地球和环境科学问题相关的研究项目。这个REU网站计划将为服务不足的学生群体提供动手，跨学科的研究经验，并加强对代表性不足的学生进入STEM领域的招聘和保留。该项目将与多所当地社区大学合作，为不同种族的社区提供服务。教师导师包括生物化学家、生物学家、化学家、地球科学家和食品科学家，他们在查普曼有活跃的本科研究小组。南加州是一个高度发达的城市化地区，拥有丰富的自然资源，导致了广泛的地球和环境挑战和问题。解决这些复杂的问题需要一支跨学科和受过良好教育的科学家队伍。通过与各自学科前沿的教师导师一起参与前沿研究，学生将参与复杂的科学研究，包括污染物的转化途径、对潮间带生态系统的环境影响、气候变化对极端天气相关事件的影响以及湿地的碳封存。项目包括台式实验、培训和使用先进的科学仪器、计算建模和数据分析。参与者还将参与专业和职业发展机会，包括数据可视化研讨会，公开演讲，展示研究成果，申请奖学金和研究生课程，以及职业小组。该项目将以全校范围的研究展示结束，参与者将进行口头和海报展示，总结他们的暑期研究成果。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This summer REU Site program in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University will annually provide 12 students selected exclusively from two-year community colleges (focusing specifically on low-income students, women, and students from underrepresented minority groups) with the opportunity to engage in research projects related to earth and environmental science issues from the molecular to global scale. This REU site program will provide an underserved student population with hands-on, interdisciplinary research experiences and enhance the recruitment and retention of underrepresented students into STEM fields. The program will partner with multiple local community colleges that serve ethnically diverse communities. Faculty mentors include biochemists, biologists, chemists, earth scientists, and food scientists with active undergraduate research groups at Chapman. Southern California is a highly developed urbanized area with considerable natural resources, resulting in a wide range of earth and environmental challenges and problems. Addressing these complex issues requires an interdisciplinary and educated workforce of scientists. Through participation in cutting-edge research with faculty mentors working at the forefront of their respective disciplines, students will engage in complex scientific studies on topics including the transformation pathways of pollutants, environmental impacts on intertidal ecosystems, effects of climate change on extreme weather-related events, and carbon sequestration in wetlands. Projects involve combinations of benchtop experimentation, training and usage of advanced scientific instrumentation, computational modeling, and data analysis. Participants will also engage in professional and career development opportunities including workshops on data visualization, public speaking, presenting research results, applying to fellowships and graduate programs, and career panels. The program will conclude with a university-wide research showcase where participants will give oral and poster presentations summarizing their summer research findings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.